A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 'This is a wonderful
book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world' Patti
Smith 'Everything Philip Hoare writes is bewitching' Olivia Laing
An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art
and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan. Albrecht
Durer changed the way we saw nature through art. From his prints in
1498 of the plague ridden Apocalypse - the first works mass
produced by any artist - to his hyper-real images of animals and
plants, his art was a revelation: it showed us who we are but it
also foresaw our future. It is a vision that remains startlingly
powerful and seductive, even now. In Albert & the Whale, Philip
Hoare sets out to discover why Durer's art endures. He encounters
medieval alchemists and modernist poets, eccentric emperors and
queer soul rebels, ambassadorial whales and enigmatic pop artists.
He witnesses the miraculous birth of Durer's fantastical rhinoceros
and his hermaphroditic hare, and he traces the fate of the
star-crossed leviathan that the artist pursued. And as the author
swims from Europe to America and beyond, these prophetic artists
and downed angels provoke awkward questions. What is natural or
unnatural? Is art a fatal contract? Or does it in fact have the
power to save us?
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